In the 10 years since I wrote "The Omnivore's Dilemma," many things about the American food system have changed for the better, but perhaps the most important development — and potentially the ...

Michael Pollan, "The Omnivore's Dilemma" Like "Fast Food Nation," "The Omnivore's Dilemma" is a book so compelling that reading it changes your relationship to the physical world: Afterward ...

In The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, food writer and UC-Berkeley professor Michael Pollan examines three American food supply chains: the industrial, which encompasses ...

In 1976, University of Pennsylvania psychologist Paul Rozin coined the term, the omnivore’s dilemma, to describe the angst of deciding what to eat when you can eat just about anything.

Pollan (The Botany of Desire) examines what he calls "our national eating disorder" (the Atkins craze, the precipitous rise in obesity) in this remarkably clearheaded book. It's a fascinating ...

If you ever thought "What's for dinner?" was a simple question, you'll change your mind after reading Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, the provocative book chosen for the 2006 Campus Community ...

The other study finds that humans and some other primates have stuck with being omnivores for a very long time. That's unlike many of our mammal friends, who used the omnivore lifestyle as a mere ...

It’s not your typical show; a jacketed usher won’t tear your ticket or show you to your seat. Instead, “the audience comes in and is invited to participate in a scavenger hunt,” Power says ...

Kip reviews the book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan For the past several months I have been writing reviews of gardening books. The Omnivore's Dilemma is, in a curious way, what might ...

Being omnivores, humans can eat almost anything but deciding what seems to stir great anxiety. As the American culture of fast food and unlimited choice becomes a world-wide phenomena, Michael ...